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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the casual ward provide?
(a) A place to stay for a maximum of six months.
(b) Job search assistance.
(c) Guidance.
(d) Food and shelter for 24 hours only.

2. How long did he and his wife have to save to buy the camera?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Two months.
(d) A year or two.

3. What did the magician earn at the time of Mayhew's interview with him?
(a) 4 pounds a week.
(b) 1 pound a week.
(c) 4 shillings a week.
(d) 25 shillings a month.

4. How much did the fire eater earn?
(a) 1 shilling a night.
(b) 10 shillings a night.
(c) 1 pound a night.
(d) 4-6 shillings per night.

5. When did the magician's father die?
(a) When the magician was 25.
(b) When the magician was 2.
(c) He was still alive at the time of the interview.
(d) When the magician was 10.

6. What is another word that Mayhew called puppeteers?
(a) Pups.
(b) Geppettos.
(c) Stringers.
(d) Punch.

7. What did the father of the magician that Mayhew interviewed do for a living?
(a) He worked in the Customs Office.
(b) He was a mayor of a small town.
(c) He was a constable.
(d) He was a policeman.

8. For whom did the street clown work for before becoming a clown?
(a) His father's employer.
(b) A gang of crossing sweeps.
(c) The constable as a watchboy.
(d) The dockmaster.

9. What did the clown hide from his neighbors?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The good money he makes.
(c) That he came from a very wealthy family.
(d) His occupation.

10. Why did the puppeteer sometimes change the content of the Punch and Judy play?
(a) He tailored it to specific audiences.
(b) He wanted to have a moral to be learned.
(c) He'd get bored with it.
(d) He never

11. What does Mayhew say humans must do?
(a) Help one another.
(b) Be good stewards of the plant kingdom.
(c) Work for a living.
(d) Be good stewards of the animal kingdom.

12. What were buskers?
(a) People who hawk wares.
(b) People who are insane but harmless.
(c) Street performers.
(d) People who are only temporarily homeless and perfectly sane.

13. What does Mayhew say about the education of street folk?
(a) They are better educated than street vendors, and the majority could read.
(b) They usually only have one or two years of schooling and if they can read, it is not too well.
(c) He doesn't mention their education.
(d) They were the least eductated of all the common people discussed.

14. What were fences in the section by John Binny?
(a) The way the rich did not have to think about the poor.
(b) A way to keep your business from your neighbor's eyes.
(c) How the government separated the criminal sections of town from other areas.
(d) Receivers of stolen goods.

15. Where was the fire eater educated?
(a) In three years of the public schools.
(b) In private schools.
(c) On the streets.
(d) He has no education to speak of and cannot read or write.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what field did many performers get their start?

2. What motivated the clown to continue working?

3. Where does the puppeteer perform his Punch and Judy show?

4. What did Hemyng define as prostitution?

5. How did most street folk learn their trade?

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